Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Border (China), 19th century

  Valance or border in heavy white cotton embroidered in blue cotton with a main design of a crow in flight appearing between two sprays of fruit-bearing branches. Flowers, butterflies and…

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  Print (France & England)

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  Fragment (Afghanistan), before 1906

  Scaled and blurred medium-scale geometric design in drimson, gold, rust, white, and green on ground in shades of deep blue. two crimson twill selvedges with paired white pencil stripes.

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  Clock (Germany), 1730–32

  Lantern-shaped clock case raising from tall concave sockle on roughly square base. Two satyrs seated on scrolls support arched cornice above which a ribbed, scrolled and wrinkled top raises, crowned…

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  Clock (France), 1807–10

  Flat, trapezoidal base with four arches along bottom front edge. Base supports a stage-like interior surmounted by semi-circular pediment inset with clock. Interior features a large door back center decorated…

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  Cap (Afghanistan), mid-19th century

  Undyed cotton quilted into narrow ribs, possibly over cording. Cording is over embroidery of coarse satin stitches in orange, black, yellow and green in a pattern of various stylized floral…

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  Cap (Afghanistan), 19th century

  Cap decorated with long ovoids surrounded by stylized borders. Multicolored silks are embroidered using coarse satin stitch in purple, pink, yellow and green. Quilted cords make ridges that give stucture…

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  Border Of A Chalice Cover (Italy), late 17th–early 18th century

  Border of a chalice cover with a pattern of floral scroll work connected by bars.

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  Clock with Figure of Pu T’ ai Ho-Shang (Chinese god of contentment) Clock, 1740–45

  A white porcelain figure of Pu T’ai Ho-Shang on a gilt bronze four legged base. On top of the figures head holds a clock covered in small white flowers.

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  Clock (Scotland), ca. 1890

  Skeleton clock (a) on oval brown wooden base (d) with four bun feet and ivory (?) and wood decorative panel showing bird amidst foliage. Circular brass chapter ring with hours…